diff -up gwibber-3.0.0.1/gwibber/microblog/storage.py.catch_sqlite_error gwibber-3.0.0.1/gwibber/microblog/storage.py
--- gwibber-3.0.0.1/gwibber/microblog/storage.py.catch_sqlite_error	2011-05-12 13:43:10.977009364 -0400
+++ gwibber-3.0.0.1/gwibber/microblog/storage.py	2011-05-12 13:59:46.707973761 -0400
@@ -41,7 +41,11 @@ class MessageManager(dbus.service.Object
   def setup_table(self):
     with self.db:
       schema = "rowid integer primary key autoincrement," + self.schema
-      self.db.execute("CREATE TABLE messages (%s)" % schema) 
+      try:
+        self.db.execute("CREATE TABLE messages (%s)" % schema) 
+      except sqlite3.OperationalError, msg:
+        log.logger.info("SQLite threw an error trying to setup the messages table: %s", msg)
+
       self.db.execute("create unique index idx1 on messages (mid, account, operation, transient)")
 
   def maintenance(self):
@@ -59,10 +63,16 @@ class MessageManager(dbus.service.Object
         log.logger.info("Found %d records in the messages stream for account %s", count, acct[0])
         if count > 2000:
           log.logger.info("Purging old data for %s", acct[0])
-          self.db.execute("DELETE FROM messages WHERE account = ? AND operation = 'receive' AND stream = 'messages' AND time IN (SELECT CAST (time AS int) FROM (SELECT time FROM messages WHERE account = ? AND operation = 'receive' AND stream = 'messages' AND time != 0 ORDER BY time ASC LIMIT (SELECT COUNT(time) FROM messages WHERE operation = 'receive' AND stream = 'messages' AND account = ? AND time != 0) - 2000) ORDER BY time ASC)", (acct[0],acct[0],acct[0]))
+          try:
+            self.db.execute("DELETE FROM messages WHERE account = ? AND operation = 'receive' AND stream = 'messages' AND time IN (SELECT CAST (time AS int) FROM (SELECT time FROM messages WHERE account = ? AND operation = 'receive' AND stream = 'messages' AND time != 0 ORDER BY time ASC LIMIT (SELECT COUNT(time) FROM messages WHERE operation = 'receive' AND stream = 'messages' AND account = ? AND time != 0) - 2000) ORDER BY time ASC)", (acct[0],acct[0],acct[0]))
+          except sqlite3.OperationalError, msg:
+            log.logger.info("DB Maintenance: SQLite threw an error: %s", msg)
       except:
         pass
-    self.db.execute("VACUUM")
+    try:
+      self.db.execute("VACUUM")
+    except sqlite3.OperationalError, msg:
+      log.logger.info("DB Maintenance: SQLite threw an error: %s", msg)
     return
   
 
@@ -154,14 +164,17 @@ class StreamManager(dbus.service.Object)
 
   def setup_table(self):
     with self.db:
-      self.db.execute("""
-      CREATE TABLE streams (
-      id text,
-      name text,
-      account text,
-      operation text,
-      data text)
-      """)
+      try:
+        self.db.execute("""
+        CREATE TABLE streams (
+        id text,
+        name text,
+        account text,
+        operation text,
+        data text)
+        """)
+      except sqlite3.OperationalError, msg:
+        log.logger.info("SQLite threw an error trying to setup the streams table: %s", msg)
 
   @dbus.service.signal("com.Gwibber.Streams", signature="s")
   def Updated(self, data):
@@ -265,15 +278,19 @@ class AccountManager(dbus.service.Object
 
   def setup_table(self):
     with self.db:
-      self.db.execute("""
-      CREATE TABLE accounts (
-          id text,
-          service text,
-          username text,
-          color text,
-          send integer,
-          receive integer,
-          data text)""")
+      try:
+        self.db.execute("""
+        CREATE TABLE accounts (
+            id text,
+            service text,
+            username text,
+            color text,
+            send integer,
+            receive integer,
+            data text)""")
+      except sqlite3.OperationalError, msg:
+        log.logger.info("SQLite threw an error trying to setup the accounts table: %s", msg)
+
 
   def refresh_password_cache(self):
     for acct in json.loads(self.List()):